In the complex and high-stakes world of spaceflight, launching a rocket is an immensely challenging undertaking that demands meticulous planning, rigorous testing, and flawless execution. Among the most crucial pre-launch activities is the wet dress rehearsal (WDR), a comprehensive simulation that puts the rocket and launch team through their paces, short of actual...
Chesley Bonestell’s detailed drawings of space travel inspired millions. James Vaughan/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College
In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program,...
Astrophysicists from the University of Potsdam have made a significant step toward solving the last puzzle in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory by observing the weak to strong transition in the space plasma turbulence surrounding Earth...
Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn -- the period in the first few...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
by Cian O'Regan
Crowds of excited space enthusiasts descended on the Limerick Institute of Technology's Millennium Theatre on Wednesday evening, to hear from Apollo 15...
NROL-70 launch trajectory. Click map to enlarge On 28 March 2024, if weather cooperates (see update at bottom of post), ULA will launch NROL-70 from...
3D Astrophysics Newsletter 2020.11
Salvatore Orlando, Ignazio Pillitteri, Fabrizio Bocchino, Laura Daricello, and Laura Leonardi
In the first half of 2019, we launched 3DMAP-VR1 (three-dimensional Modeling of Astrophysical Phenomena in Virtual Reality),...
Geminids meteor shower over Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab). License: CC BY 4.0.Step outside on a clear night in 2024,...